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Top Pun's mission is to maximize prophets. Top Pun creates serious, funny, and seriously funny peace and justice designs which are available on your choice of products such as buttons, T-shirts, and bumper stickers. Top Pun blogs to highlight additional facets of his word artistry such as pun-filled poetry and funny political satire, free posters, as well as political actions of local and global importance -- and don't forget the noncommercial, public health radio show available online, Just for the Health of It . Top Pun's serious playfulness ever reminds us that justice is no yoke, and the pun is mightier than the sword!
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Tag Archives: Possibility
POEM: Making a Fuel of My Self
In the cold night That darkest time When dawns forgotten My heart burns With fear and pain My home aflame To an unaltarable offering And fiery furnish Of wanton change Of hammering out or deal For scanty respite From that … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Accountability, Awe, Change, Denial, Events, Experience, Fear, Gandhi, God, Hate, Heart, Holy, Hope, Humanity, Injustice, Justice, Love, Mourning, Nonviolence, Nonviolent, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Possibility, Power, Powers that be, Preferential Option for the Poor, Psychology, Reactionary, Reality, Rebellion, Resistance, Rich, Solidarity, Soul, Status, Status Quo, Success, Temptation, Time, Transcendent, Violence, Voting
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POEM: In Possibility Incarnate
Alex created A work of art And Another Each infinitely improbable In possibility incarnate Bound only By certain desire One in many This poem is a mini-manifesto on art and the artistic process; hopefully, inducing some inspiration and incarnating some … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Art, Awareness, Beautiful, Change, Character, Existential, Experience, Freedom, Gender, God, Heart, Inspiration, Life, Manifesto, masculinity, Meaning, Passion, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Political, Possibility, Religion, Self-Awareness, Work
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POEM: A Scarecrow’s Doo
My life is very Scuffed up Round the edges Hither too Better than A scarecrow Keeping Snobs a way As they brood Over heir dues Wile They are off Making hay Their own Abrade Turning straw men Into goaled Only … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Character, Consciousness, Conventional Wisdom, Culture, Efficiency, Gift, Humanity, Inane, Joke, Life, Love, Meaning, Money, Ode, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Possibility, Productivity, Sex, Status, Stereotypes, Superficial, Temptation, Time, Western Civilization, Wisdom
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POEM: An Oasis Scarcely Better, Then a Mirage
From oasis to oasis Straw men Hiring suckers Living under Dissembled bridges Until it’s over Troubled waters What’s the hold-up Living for weak ends And long vocations Until Down Under One foot in front of the other One foot in … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Awe, Balance, Character, Choices, Consumption, Conundrum, Cynical, Death, Disease, Environment, Evolution, Extinction, Family, Future, Genius, Harmony, History, Hope, Human Nature, Human Race, Humanity, Learning, Life, Lifestyle, Moral, Morality, Nature, Ode, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Possibility, Revolution, Suffering, Sustainable, Time, Work
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Testimony to NRC to Shut Down Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Plant
Below is my testimony for today’s Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s public hearing regarding the potential re-licensing of the Davis-Besse nuclear power plant: My name is Dan Rutt. So, what are my credentials for being here tonight? I live in the kill … Continue reading
Posted in About Top Pun, Poems, Political Action
Tagged America, Children, Congress, Death, Democracy, Environment, Faith, Farce, Future, Hope, Job, Jobs, Life, Mother Earth, Mourning, Nuclear Power, Poet, Possibility, Power, Probability, Prophet, Public Health, Reality, Rich, Shareholder, Titanic, Top Pun, Work
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POEM: Forgiving Justice
Forgiveness can no more refute The demands of justice And its claim reguarding the lost Than justice can outflank The necessity of forgiveness To open the door for peace A heart rendering choice The difference being Securing one’s house Or … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Anger, Awareness, Experience, Fear, Forgiveness, Gandhi, Gift, Grace, Gratitude, Heart, Hope, Injustice, John Lennon, Justice, Life, Loss, Love, Perspective, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Possibility, Present, Questions, Reality, Respect, Risk, Sacred, Short Poems
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POEM: Lust Potential
Lust Potential He looked about him And saw Their cups were filled Even overflowing And still He mourned The size of their cups Years ago, I heard a description of heaven as a place where no matter the size of … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abundance, Acceptance, Awe, Beautiful, Change, Envy, Experience, Fear, God, Heaven, Image, Inspiration, Jealousy, Joy, Life, Loss, Love, Mourning, Passion, Poems, Poetry, Possibility, Reality, Redemption, Scarcity, Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, Short Poems, Work, Worldview
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POEM: Certifiable
Certifiable Respectability is the currency of the establishment A religion of red carpets and relics Propriety is its only denomination Holding sway with all that moves Trafficking in status A multitude of sins covered in fine veneers Indulgences purchased by … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Conventional Wisdom, Culture, Cynicism, Death, Dreams, Facts, Faith, Future, Happiness, Harmony, Heart, Hope, Life, Mystic, Possibility, Power, Powers that be, Present, Probability, Propriety, Reality, Religion, State, Statistics, Status, Status Quo, Time, Transcendent, Voting, Wisdom, Work
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POEM: A Rude Invitation
Violence is an invitation To more violence And a rude invitation at that Such invitations need not be returned As you might have guest Violence begets violence. Means produce ends. How can we escape this vicious cycle? Must we accept … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Acceptance, America, Creation, Creativity, Crises, Experience, Freedom, Gandhi, Healing, Human Rights, Justice, Nonviolence, Nonviolent, Pacifism, Patriotism, Poems, Poetry, Possibility, Power, Rage, Reality, Sacrifice, Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, Short Poems, State, Violence, War, Work, Xenophobia
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POEM: Treatment…Like…Sewage
Treatment…Like…Sewage I lived in Libertarianville They said “If you want sewage treatment, Just go to some place that has it.” So I did Many don’t live there long I find discussing politics with self-professed Libertarians a vexing experience. Typically, we … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Addiction, America, Authority, Balance, Buddhism, Buddhist, Censorship, Choices, Common Good, Compassion, Control, Disease, Doctrine, Dream, Dreams, Experience, Faith, Fear, Free market, Freedom, Fundamentalism, Future, Heart, Humanity, Ideology, Idolatry, Ironic, Irony, Journey, libertarian, Life, Logic, Love, Market, Moral, Nihilism, Philosophy, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, Possibility, Present, Public Health, Questioning, Reality, Sacrifice, Skepticism, State, Stupid, Transcendent, Truth, Values, Wisdom, Worldview, Worship
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May Day Street Theater – Corporate Zombies vs. Village People
This is the script for the street theater production that was performed tonight to kick off Occupy Toledo‘s May Day Fest week’s worth of events: May Day Eve Celebration Occupy Toledo April 30, 2012 “The Corporate Zombies vs. The Village … Continue reading
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Tagged Accountability, America, Anti-Corporate, Business, Capitalism, Change, Choices, Compassion, Consumerism, Control, Corporate Personhood, Democracy, Depression, Economic, Economy, Environment, Environmental, Events, Family, Farce, Food, Funny, Future, Greed, Health Care, Health Insurance, History, Hope, Human Rights, Humanity, Inane, Injustice, Justice, Labor, Life, May Day, Meaning, Media, Military, Mock, Money, Mother Earth, Occupy Toledo, Occupy Wall Street, Oppression, Pi, Political, Poor, Possibility, Poverty, Power, Propaganda, Recession, Responsibility, Security, Slavery, Society, Soul, State, Stewardship, Suffering, Time, Toledo, Truth, Values, War, Wealth, zombie
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